Molly Eichel

Staff Writer

Molly Eichel is an assistant features editor. She writes about film and television, and edits the Weekend section. Molly was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she spent a lot of time sitting too close to the television screen.

Former CBS3 anchor Alycia Lane was at the Lenox Hotel in Boston, about a half a block away from the finish line, yesterday to cheer on a friend. She gave a first-person account of what she experienced to the "Today" show this morning. She also spoke with Brian Williamson NBC’s primetime special report last night.

“We could feel the ground shake below us, and everything on our table shook,” she recalled to Williams. “Ten seconds later, a second blast hit and we looked outside and saw a plume of smoke up in the air."

She also brought up an interesting point: Police told Lane and other bystanders to turn off their cell phones so no devices were accidentally detonated remotely, out of fear that a suspect was still in the crowd.